''Lonicera alpigena'' L.,Not to be confused with ''L. alpigena'' C.B. Clarke, syn. '' L. webbiana'' Wall. ex DC. known as alpine honeysuckle, is a species of

honeysuckle Honeysuckles are arching shrubs or Vine#Twining vines, twining vines in the genus ''Lonicera'' () of the family Caprifoliaceae. The genus includes 158 species native to northern latitudes in North America, Eurasia, and North Africa. Widely kno ...

native to mountain forests of Central and Southern

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. It is sometimes cultivated as an

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outside its native range. It is a deciduous shrub up to 2 m high, and in late summer, bears conspicuous brilliant red inedible fruits superficially resembling cherries. '' L. glehnii'' F. Schmidt, which is native to

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, Kurile Islands,

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and

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, is sometimes considered as a geographically disjunct subspecies of alpine honeysuckle, ''L. alpigena'' L. subsp. ''glehnii'' (F. Schmidt) H. Hara.

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* * alpigena Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Flora of Europe {{Dipsacales-stub